November 17, 2011

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Attendance: John Sengia, Michelle Krill, Sandy Benedict, Katie Barnes, Carol Roth, Lauri Brady, Bryan Tayman, Karen Sipe, Ann Johnston

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Discussion Topics

• Collaboration Day(s)
  • Cancel December
  • Spring date - May 2 new date
    • Newbie and coaching corner sections
    • Diigo
  • Collaborate with Math/Literacy possibility
  • Running out of teachers based on past format (some) - Sandy says she has more
  • Possibility of working with Curriculum for more of a showcase day
  • Think about what you wish for your teachers for the Collaboration Days, and come prepared to work at December meeting - Christmas party
• Professional Development offerings at each district
  • SWSD - Coaching, job-embedded PD, Summer Tech, Online courses - discussing
  • Fairfield - PD committee (rep. from each building), Hour after school sessions as part of contracted faculty meetings
  • Spring Grove - job-embedded PD, Oct. in-service days that included a variety of things; Techno Thursdays last year
  • CYSD - Elem - collaboration times 8 - 8:30 3x/6-day cycle - Lauri pushes into these meetings, Tech Coordinators before/after school workshops, six hours of additional hours - Placing Technology in the Hands of Our Students, Making Global Connections, Project-Based Learning in the Classroom, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners, The World of Moodle & Google Applications, Enriching Advanced LearnersAct 80 Tech days, Middle – team meetings
  • West York - after school sessions (not required),
  • Conewago Valley SD - on case basis, everything else after school, Technology Showcase during faculty meetings (Karen recommends folks to do this), Teachers have goals for supervision, and one is their initiative; the other technology goal (for some of them - work with Karen), share the URL
    
    
• edcamp Harrisburg sharing - Michelle will share her report after she writes it up! edcamp model might be an interesting format for a tienet day!
• PATI? What are people doing since it is only the technology phase now? Red Lion is doing speakup.
• Michelle would like to gather information about what all districts are doing for online learning solutions. Watch for a form!
• Sandy - Who is using ePortfolios for parent access? CVSD (wants to do this) and CYSD use Google sites. Share URL with parents. SGASD (John) - gifted seminar kids - Wikispace acct. for each student.
• Here's Michelle's Diigo eportfolio tab:http://www.diigo.com/user/Mmkrill/ePortfolio.
  
  

Resources

Mobilist Nation (ISTE)

Events

Sumdog in PA
Archived webinar

Marcellus Shale Student Summit